
**__Elective Class Descriptions – July 27__** **__11:00 - 11:50__** **__and July 28__** **__9:30 – 10:20__**

**__One Hour Classes (Select One From Group A and One From Group B)__**

**__Group A – July 27__** **__11:00 - 11:50 a.m.__** **__– You May Select One Class From This List__**

**Culpepper/Powers – The Art of Intimidation**
90 percent of everything in life is about confidence. We are not sure what the other 10 percent is, but we do know that it doesn’t matter when you act like you think you know what you are doing, even when you have no clue. Come and learn how to mind*k your opponents into making mistakes and trick judges to vote for you even when you know you’ve lost a debate.

**Greenstein – Nothing is Topical**
This class will discuss advanced topicality strategic and tactics as they relate to this debate topic. This class will convince you that topicality is life. Note: There will be no framework discussion; this is raw topicality only.

**Heaton – The 30 extra seconds you needed to win that debate**
Your rants were too long, you repeated yourself too much, or you used a million words instead of the necessary 10. Learn how to increase your efficiency so you can get in all the arguments you need to win debates!

**Turner – Negative Strategy Against Non-Traditional Affs
**Framework just doesn't cut it so what do you do? This elective will discuss research strategies for dealing with nontraditional affs.**

__Group B – July 28__ __9:30 – 10:20 a.m.__ __– You May Select One Class From This List__

Culpepper – You want to debate in the Elims?
**Well, it’s different than the prelims because there are panels. This elective will explore the ways you should treat debating in front of a panel differently than in front of a single judge. You think it's boring then you'll likely lose in the doubles.**

Greenstein/Quinn/Turner – The Tortoise and the Hare, or How to Win At A Geologic Pace
**Come learn the secrets of winning debates when you've been gifted with a fast intellect but slow delivery. Not all debaters are destined to be auctioneers, and the Chosen Ones have thus learned to get by with efficiency, argument choice, and wit. Do you want to carry on the legacy?**

Heaton – Debates are won before you get to the Tournament
**Preparation and Organization are your friends! Learn how to best organize your tubs, expandos, and files. Instead of using your prep time to find files, use it to make arguments!**

Powers – Consult!
**It’s the greatest strategic tool asset in any negative arsenal. Learn why and how to use it to win (literally) debate tournaments (plural). I did it, so can you.**

__Two Hour Classes (You Can Select Only One Two-Hour Class)__

[[Berk & Mainiero – Infinite Prep|Berk/Mainiero – What a Waste of Infinite Prep]]
**Learn how to attack what most affirmatives are least prepared to defend – their case. Becoming an effective case debater provides you with the ability to know what to research and the skills to beat any affirmative, even new and/or tricky ones, with smart, logical arguments. While your generics might not always apply, being able to devastate a case will help you in every single negative round, whether your offense is a kritik or a disad. The first hour of this two-hour elective will feature general tips while the second hour will focus on this topic. Dave will supplement the discussion with ways for affirmatives to mount a substantive defense of their case.**

Berthiaume – Impact Analysis - Beyond "Magnitude, Probability, Time Frame"
**Good impact analysis wins debates! But let's face facts, most impact analysis is boring enough to make judges fall asleep. This elective will discuss how to weigh impacts while moving beyond the "MPT checklist."**

Clark – The 2A: For Good or For Awesome?
**A good 2AC makes smart arguments on all of the flows. An awesome 2AC makes the block virtually impossible. A good 2AR will win the debate. An awesome 2AR means a quick 3-0 for the aff, even if you were behind after the 2NR. This elective will teach you how to punch the 2N in the face (with arguments).**

Kernoff/Marks – Advanced Permutations
**Some people use their permutations for good. We will teach you to use your permutations for AWESOME. Master all perms from the perm-PIC to the logic perm to why no conditioning or consult CP's are competitive this year. We will also spend time learning how to answer these tricky, devious perms. We may even mention counter-perms (counter-counter perms?). The latter half of the class will work with hypothetical plan and CP texts to get hands-on practice with the theoretically difficult material.**

Mancuso – Advanced Strategies for Debating Politics
**This class will cover very advanced strategies both for the affirmative and negative concerning the popular Politics Disadvantage.**

shanahan – //friedrich nietzsche: the man, the myth, the monstrous//
**neitzsche has emerged full-bore into debate and the effects are predictably devastating to our values, thinking, and debating – we will discuss some ways to understand neitzsche, develop arguments (aff and neg), strategize, and how to answer him**

Strange – Strategic CX
**Good cross-examination can help you debate better and win more rounds. We will discuss methods and practice them in class.**


__Elective Class Descriptions – July 31 and Aug. 1__ __9:00 – 9:50 a.m.__

__Two Hour Classes (You Can Select Only One Two-Hour Class)__
Berk/Serrano – How to win NDCA, TOC, & NFL – Judge Adaptation
**Winning a debate round is 10% having good arguments and 90% presenting them the correct way to a judge. If you are tired of crushing a team only to have the judge say they didn't understand your argument or "didn't buy it" this class is for you! If you think you were a perfect speaker but got a 27.5, this will help. Learn where to get knowledge about your judge, how to process that information, and how to continually use verbal and non-verbals during a debate round to guide your strategic decisions. We will also discuss how to conduct effective post-round discussions and how to win a diverse panel.**

Berthiaume – Flowing – You need to do it
**Be honest - most of us scribble down something illegible and then are left mumbling, "They said...um...non-unique?" You'll learn strategies for ensuring that you write down and can read everything you need to write down (and nothing more!). You'll also learn common abbreviations, strategies for dealing with missing args on your flow and tips for flowing on the computer. Practice what you learn in the second hour with fun flowing activities!**

Clark – Advanced Counterplan Strategy
**Strategically crafted counterplans can be the nuclear weapons in the negative's arsenal. We will discuss how to write counterplans with creativity, ingenuity, and a little bit of research. Worried that your EU counterplan doesn't solve their soft power advantage? Think again! Well-written counterplans are especially helpful against new or non-topical affs when you have little specific evidence. Affirmatives, don't despair; we will also discuss how to strategically out-maneuver the negative.**

Culpepper – How to be Neg on the Aff
**This elective is not for the weak at heart nor the hippie activist. If you have a fetish for nuclear war or anything that terminates in extinction, then I encourage you to come as we will emphasize that fetish. This elective is for those who want to learn the tricks and skills needed to debate the largest big stick policy affirmatives on the topic. Especially ones that deal with how the U.S. should contain China…**

Greenstein – How to Win with NOTHING
**The title of the elective says it all: this elective will teach you how to win debates when you have nothing to say, no evidence, or how no idea what is going on.**


Marks – Ethics K
**Ethics are evil. Come learn an advanced, non-Nietzschean criticism of ethical and moral claims (including rights discourse). I will give you amazing cites to seed your research and will explain how to destroy all aff arguments. If the equipment is available, we will also watch and argue about some movies that question simplistic claims like, "genocide is evil," "the Nazis were evil," and "the status quo is unethical."**

Powers – Negative Terrorism
**Let’s face facts: everyone flips negative in late elimination rounds for a reason. Going negative, in a strange strategic turn, allows you to control the entire debate. Trends in winning percentages have been decisive on this question: negative’s are winning more and more, especially in elimination debates. Learn the tricks of becoming a negative terrorist, never afraid, and always striking fear in your opponents.**

Quinn – Migraine-inducing 1NR's
**With the extra prep time, 1NR's are held to higher standards. Learn how to exceed even those expectations and enjoy the best speech in debate. No 1AR will consider standing-up ever again.**

shanahan – //giorgio agamben, michel foucault, and martin heidegger//
**this topic produces exceptional, biopolitical lives and spaces, allowing both aff and neg to take strong, strategic advantage of agamben’s biopolitics, foucault’s racism and biopower, and heideggerian alternatives to both – we will discuss how their political projects can be used to win debates**

Strange – Strategic CX
**Good cross-examination can help you debate better and win more rounds. We will discuss methods and practice them in class.**

Turner – Wait, my health aff isn't realist?
**Affirmative kritik strategy should be more than Murray, Guzzini, Mearshimer and Rorty. We'll talk about crafting 1ACs and 2AC strategies for kritik debates that involve more than copying backfiles.**

__Elective Class Descriptions – Aug. 2 and Aug. 3__ __10:00 – 10:50 a.m.__

__One Hour Classes (Select One From Group A and One From Group B)__
__Group A – Aug. 2__ __10:00 – 10:50 a.m.__ __– You May Select One Class From This List__
Bacon – How to be Scary in One Easy Step (And Dressing Up as Me for Halloween Doesn’t Count)
**The idea of “be a winner” may seem like a cliché but winning is a psychological hurdle that many debaters never truly surmount. This is an intensive, no group hugs, get hardcore down to your soul, one hour session that will change you and make even the dementors respect you. Learn to win!**

Heaton – Be a Research Guru! Find Better Cards Faster!
**Learn tricks of how to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your research. Gain insight on which think tanks are best for which topics, seek out qualified sources, and additional tips.**

Mancuso – Strategies for Winning International Agent Counterplans
**Agent counterplans – where the negative team “fiats” the adoption of something similar to the affirmative plan by an international agent such as Japan, China, the EU or the AU - will be one of the most common strategies on the this topic. This course will cover all strategic aspects of running one of those counterplans, including counterplan wording issues, permutations, solvency, and fiat.**

Serrano – Flowing Fun
**Learn a few tips how to flow effectively, and then practice for the majority of the elective using music, speeches and other flowing games.**
__Group B – Aug. 3__ __10:00 – 10:50 a.m.__ __– You May Select One Class From This List__

Heaton – Debates are won before you get to the Tournament
**Preparation and Organization are your friends! Learn how to best organize your tubs, expandos, and files. Instead of using your prep time to find files, use it to make arguments!**

Mancuso – Owning Cross Examination
**Cross-ex is the 12 minutes of debate that are completely up for grabs. You’ve seen how the most successful debaters dominate the cross-ex period. This class will cover strategies that you can use for asking AND answering questions so that you can make the 12 minutes all your own.**


Powers/Serrano -- Counter permutations, justification, e Prime - oh my!
**A comprehensive review of all debate terminology and argumentation by playing a game of taboo. Never be caught not knowing what the other team is talking about. Prizes for the winners!**

Quinn – How To Be Neg Against New Affs
**Most 2N's fear what some call the five scariest words of pre-round disclosure: "we're running a new aff." We'll take apart the strategic position of being in the dark before the 1AC and how to use it to your advantage. You'll have 2A's running for the hills.**

__Two Hour Classes (You Can Select Only One Two-Hour Class)__
Berk/Gerath – Spark/Nuclear Malthus
**Feeling tricky? Need an “ace-in-the-hole” argument? Want to know how to beat those pesky “nuke war good” debaters once and for all? Or do you just not want to miss a good opportunity to see Jamie and Bill go at it? Learn how to master what Bill calls “the best argument ever” or defeat what Jamie calls “the worst argument ever.”**

Berthiaume – Talk Fast, Talk Pretty
**The good speakers get all of the speaker awards and don't sit around on elim day because they missed clearing on points. This elective will do individual diagnostics to make you louder, clearer and able to stop spitting on your judges. Come prepared to speak.**

Cramer – Coaching 101
**Are you without a coach? Do you have a coach with little experience? How about a coach with little policy experience which means you aren’t getting the kind of national exposure you’d like? Has your team budget been cut so severely you don’t have the money to go to the tournaments you would like to attend? During this elective, I will offer insight into how to jump start a team. I will expose some of my own fund raising techniques, recruiting strategies, member retention approaches, how to secure judging and on the side coaching plus give you ways to sell your program to team families, administration and the local community. My team has been named outstanding student organization and was saved from the chopping block during drastic budget cuts; in fact when other programs received budget cuts, our budget went up! I’ll share my trade secrets with you and help you find ways to capitalize your program. I mean I coach 3 programs…I ought to know!**

Culpepper – Forcing the K to Answer the Aff
**No Framework, Just logical consistent arguments about how to deploy the affirmative as a strategic answer to critical arguments that would like to forget the affirmative existed or that the world is a complete cluster****.**

Greenstein – How to Win with NOTHING
**The title of the elective says it all: this elective will teach you how to win debates when you have nothing to say, no evidence, or how no idea what is going on.**

Kernoff – "NEVER SAY 'REALISM GOOD' IF YOU HAVE A SOFT POWER ADVANTAGE"
**This elective will introduce the basic theories of international relations, with particular emphasis on realism, liberalism, and constructivism. We will also discuss ways that these theories can help you win debates when other teams misapply their arguments, and also how understanding these theories can make you a smarter researcher. We will focus mostly on how these theories affect kritik debates and soft power/hegemony debates. If you plan on reading or answering the security K, soft power advantages, or "realism good", this elective is for you.**

shanahan – //the new faces of anarchy: david graeber, giorgio agamben, a new foucault, and others//
**graeber argues this is an anarchist century: //foucault 2.0// introduces a staggering version of the late foucault that could revolutionize debating foucault: and, agamben’s dirty little secret is now obvious – a heady concoction of radical pragmatism, indeed: this ain’t your parents’ anarchy**

Turner – Kritiking Disads/Defending Disads
**We'll talk through setting up aff strategies that focus on criticizing disads as well as choosing negative disad/cp strategies that anticipate this increasingly frequent aff strategy.**

__Elective Class Descriptions – Aug, 2 and Aug. 3__ __11:00 – 11:50 a.m.__
__One Hour Classes (Select One From Group A and One From Group B)__
__Group A – Aug. 2__ __11:00 – 11:50 a.m.__ __– You May Select One Class From This List__

Heaton – Adaptation
**Not all of us can/want to regularly debate in front of college debaters and experienced judges. Just because you are being judged by a parent does not mean that the round is a toss up. Learn how to adapt your arguments, skills, and evidence for your local circuit!**

Kaczmarek – Dr. Seuss for Articulation and Clarity
**Come see what the Fox in Socks can do for you. You will practice speaking clearly and quickly with several passages from this Dr. Seuss classic – passages you can use to warm up throughout the season. If fortune smiles, we may finish the class with an interpretative reading of the entire book, complete with pictures.**

Mancuso – The 10.5 Keys to Devastating Rebuttals
**This class will cover detailed advice for turning your rebuttals into aggressive, organized and lethal speech acts. If you came to camp to “become a better debater” this class is for you.**

Powers/Serrano -- Counter permutations, justification, e Prime - oh my!
**A comprehensive review of all debate terminology and argumentation by playing a game of taboo. Never be caught not knowing what the other team is talking about. Prizes for the winners!**

__Group B – Aug. 3__ __11:00 – 11:50 a.m.__ __– You May Select One Class From This List__
Heaton – The 30 extra seconds you needed to win that debate
**Your rants were too long, you repeated yourself too much, or you used a million words instead of the necessary 10. Learn how to increase your efficiency so you can get in all the arguments you need to win debates!**

Kaczmarek – Dr. Seuss for Articulation and Clarity
**Come see what the Fox in Socks can do for you. You will practice speaking clearly and quickly with several passages from this Dr. Seuss classic – passages you can use to warm up throughout the season. If fortune smiles, we may finish the class with an interpretative reading of the entire book, complete with pictures.**

Mancuso – Winning on the Negative
**This class discusses principles of how to design effective negative strategies. Topics will include diversity of arguments, time tradeoffs, impact selection and weighing, preparing at home, refining at tournaments, and in-round audibles.**

Serrano – DDI to Greenhill/Wake
**Sure you learned a lot and have a lot of ev, but now what? Do you get to relax and ride off of this to your first tournament? No matter how you do at the DDI tournament, there are a lot of things you need to do to make sure you are ready to trample your opponents this fall. Come learn how to be sure to start your season off strong and rack up those TOC bids/NDCA points from day 1 so you too can win the Baker award.**

__Two Hour Classes (You Can Select Only One Two-Hour Class)__
Bacon – Crushing the Muggles in the Marketplace of Ideas
**Imagine one meta concept that operates with every kritik, theory argument disad, case turn, disad, counterplan, pimp, T argument, advantage, net benefit, etc, etc into a usable framework that allows you to command and control each and every round. There is true joy in simplicity. Now ask yourself "How big is my trophy" because you are gonna need space on your shelves after this. We will investigate the very philosophy of thinking itself. Come embrace the dark side – Voldemort (DON’T SAY IT) action figures sold separately.**

Clark – Efficiency and Persuasion: How to Win Debates Even if You are Slow
**Inefficient debaters can take twice as long to make the same number of arguments. Monotonous debaters can get bad speaker points and lose debates even if they are making better arguments. I will discuss tips for being more efficient and persuasive and then we will practice these skills by doing short 2NC/1NR drills. [Limit of 10-15 people so there is time for short speeches.]**

Cramer/Boswell – Women in debate
**This will be a discussion and personal reflection session. By the end of the elective we will compile a series of anecdotes. Everyone is welcome; we want the input of both males and females on these issues. This is not a lecture; bring a cup of coffee and have a chat about some of these pressing issues concerning women in debate: Is there a disparity between males and females in the activity? If there is such a disparity how does that gap affect our identity in debate? Are women taken as seriously as men? What does it take to be taken seriously in what many call an “old boys club?” Does debate have an “old boys club?” Are there ways the debate community could be more gender sensitive? Do gender arguments help or hurt women? Is the term “guys” truly gender neutral? And more**

Marks – Death
**My personal pink elephant, unleashed. I'll teach Night of the Living Dead, Death Cult 1.0, Jumanji, Death Cult 2.0, Critical Wipeout, Death Cult 3.0, Mrs. Doubtfire, versions of the Apocalypse K, and Woolly Mammoths. I'll give you the major cites. I will also explain kritiks as theory arguments, D-Rules, VI's, discourse alternatives, questions of ontology, and why each has different strategic advantages in the world of death arguments. Finally, I will go through every aff argument I've ever heard and why the tiny differences between each death argument allows you to avoid having to answer any of them.**

Quinn – Tub-thumping 2AR's
**The last speech in the debate isn't supposed to be delivered through your nose or hiding behind your laptop. Even Roger Solt once said, "if the 2AR was a weapon, it would be a sledgehammer...with bombs taped to it." Come learn how to make judges stop flowing and just listen to the power of your delivery. We'll practice some techniques, so bring comfortable shoes and protective eyewear.**

shanahan – //william spanos, martin heidegger, and a certain Foucault//
**these three thinkers together pose perhaps the greatest challenge to contemporary debate practices and certainly provide you with magnificent, winning strategies – this is the whole argumentative package, from critical aff to niche strategy or traditional kritiks, alternative and judge space included***

Strange – Winning a DA**
We'll discuss techniques for making disads better and apply those techniques to DA's chosen by the class.